Are some shows just too smart or challenging for the mass audiences that sustain broadcast TV? Take Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays, as I do in a feature up on the wire for The Canadian Press this week. You can read the full story here.Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays airs its final episode of the season Tuesday
VANCOUVER–Who knew the high arctic was just five miles north of the U.S. border?That’s where CBC held their west coast version of their Winter launch, in the makeshift sound stage where interiors for their upcoming drama Arctic Air are shot. The series, which stars Adam Beach and was inspired by the real life Buffalo Airmen
There are times when I shake my head and say to myself, “I love my job.”Wednesday was one of those times. It all started after I was invited to Ottawa to watch the folks behind Murdoch Mysteries shoot a few scenes in front of the Parliament Buildings. Next thing I know, I’m being ushered into
It’s so rare when things work out in such a common sense way in Canadian television that I’m not even sure this is real. Yet everyone I just interviewed for the hurry up CP story says its true–Murdoch Mysteries has been saved.The Canadian historical drama, readers here will recall, was set to be phased out
Host MacLean and skaters Dubreuil and Berard face judge Bezic Battle of the Blades is one of those shows you really should see live. The skating performances look great on camera, but there is a big event energy to an actual taping as I discovered again Sunday night at the Mastercard Centre. This was my
Here is the video of my fun skate Friday with Battle of the Blades finalist Marie-France Dubreuil. The stunt took place at Toronto’s Mastercard Centre. Thanks to the elegant, Dubreuil, her game Blades partner Bryan Berard and choreographer Michael Seibert for their on-ice coaching during the session. That kooky sideways shot is courtesy of Berard,
’90s band Moxy Fruvous. The hippie dude is Jian Ghomeshi I loved that Tom Cochrane song Life is a Highway the minute I heard it. It is the perfect car radio, turn it up real loud song.You can hear it tonight along with dozens of other homegrown pop tunes on Life is a Highway: Canadian
Go Canucks. That has to be the cry at CBC as Canada’s team stays in the Stanley Cup playoff hunt. Vancouver games took two of the top three spots in the national prime time ratings the week of April 25 to May 1 as I report over at Toronto.com’s “Remote Control” section. The team hit a high of 3,827,000